Mid-State Homes, Incorporated v. Holt

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from judgment for plaintiff in an action for fraud. Judgment was for $5,000.00, including punitive damages.

The essence of the complaint was that in November of 1964, plaintiffs executed a mortgage on real estate to Jim Walter Corporation, which mortgage was sold and transferred to defendant Mid-State Homes, Incorporated; that monthly payments were made by plaintiffs in the amount of $34.00 for the months of January, February and March, 1965; that on March 25, 1965, defendant by letter to plaintiffs, for the purpose of inducing plaintiffs to become in…